APCF -Chapter 9 (2)

“……What does that mean?”

“If beauty could be converted into magic,” Qi Xingchen paused, “Then my idol can save all the lives of the common people in this world single-handedly.”

The entire crowd fell silent for three seconds.

“HAHAHAHAHAcough1—” Loud laughter then erupted.

“I cannot do this anymore, Xingxing,” the assistant director held his stomach while laughing till his tears almost came out, “Where did you learn how to rainbow fart2 like this?”

Qi Xingchen felt wronged: “That’s not rainbow farting, I’m speaking the truth!”

“Okay okay okay, it’s the truth. If I were your idol, I reckon I would be happy beyond words3 now HAHAHAHA!”

“That’s right, that’s right. When can I also have such a fan who can brag4 so well? I’m really envious, oohHAHAHAHA!”

……Would he be happy?
Qi Xingchen’s face was smiling along with them, while his eyes drifted towards Bo Ye’s side.

In actual fact, he had deliberately said that — If he could brag about the male protagonist until he was happy, maybe the male protagonist would go easier on him later.

In addition, Tao Tao’s protagonist’s halo was way too powerful, so powerful to the point where as long as he was beside Tao Tao, he would always be haunted by a sense of crisis.

He had no other choice but to grab onto the male protagonist and get acquainted with him to stay beside the male and female protagonists and constantly monitor their relationship development.

The easiest way to get acquainted with someone is to flatter them.
Nobody disliked being rainbow farted at, if there was, it just meant he did not do it brilliantly or good enough.

Bo Ye remained looking down at his phone. Qi Xingchen secretly stared at his unmoving5 face profile for quite a long while, then came to a conclusion: he really did not do it brilliantly enough.

Only when he felt the line of sight that fell on him move away, did the corner of Bo Ye’s eyes under the sunglasses gradually diffuse a light smile.

…

The crowd waited for a full hour before Liu Ziyu cat-walked over in her high heels.

She was wearing a crop top and hot pants while carrying a small electric fan in her hands, complaining non-stop: “Why is it so hot here? Even my makeup is all smudged. Lily, bring me my powder foundation.”

The assistant handed her the powder foundation, and she looked in her mirror to fix her makeup while speaking: “Aiyah, Director Zhang, you’re all here already. I didn’t look good in that part just now, cut it out and don’t broadcast it, okay?”

As a hot7 A-lister little flower, Liu Ziyu could be said to be the model of becoming popular from being hated. The number of topics about her was more than the number of her works, the number of people cursing at her was more than the number of people who liked her.

But this type of casting was exactly what variety shows liked because she could bring the heat from debates.

“Alright, I won’t broadcast that part.”
The director, Director Zhao, agreed to her request. Liu Ziyu happily kept her powder foundation, then turned and sidled up to Bo Ye.

“Bo Ye, I never dreamed that I could actually be on the same show as you. I really love your music, I would be starring in a television drama as the lead airing on satellite next month. Can I invite you to make a soundtrack for it?”

“These days, I don’t have any inspiration to write songs for the time being,” Bo Ye refused outright, “Sorry.”

Li Ziyu did not actually mind and did not care if Bo Ye accepted it or not; she had already achieved her aim of promoting her new drama just now.

She pouted, indicating that she still hoped to have an opportunity to work with him. At this movement, seeing that everybody was here, Director Zhao took out a megaphone, “Everyone, quiet down.”

The crowd quietened down and gathered in a circle in front of the director.

The director continued: “Welcome to all the guests on 《Let’s Budget Travel!》. The rules of the programme have been explained to each of you beforehand, so I will not repeat them. Next, representing the programme team, I would start our first mission.”

“What mission?”

“This trip to Denmark will last 7 days, and the programme team will provide a set amount of travel funds. Our requirements are that you all visit a new attraction every day, as well as for each one of you to pick a gift for the audience after this trip to be used as lucky draw prizes on Weibo.”
“The givers of top 3 most popular gifts will then receive a personal travel prize from the programme team in the next stop, which can be distributed at will.”
“Is everyone clear?”

“Clear,” Zhang Yunfei said, “Then how much is our travel funds?”

Director Zhao: “8000 kroner.”

“8000 kroner……” The original owner had travelled to Denmark before, thus Qi Xingchen had some impression of it, “The krone and yuan are almost equivalent, if each person has 8000+, 6 people would have 50 000. We should have enough for 7 days.”

“Who said it was 8000 kroner per person?” Director Zhao threw a “you are too naive” look, “All of you, in total, 8000 kroner.”

Qi Xingchen: “……”
He had just started work and already got his first blow.

The other guests also felt it was somewhat difficult to accept, remaining silent.

Liu Ziyu was obviously not too pleased and muttered something.

The reason why she had become popular from being hated was that she had the guts to blabber about anything. No one knew if it was the persona her company had set for her, or if she was just like that.

The following shot assistant ran over to ask: “Ziyu, do you have questions?”

“8000 kroner for 6 people to play for 7 days, and we still have to buy gifts…… Is this not forcing us into a corner?”

The following shot assistant explained: “The programme team had calculated this in detail before. As long as all of you are thrifty, living here definitely would not be a problem.”

“But we would also have to see what the quality of life is like, right?” Liu Ziyu huffed, “From the looks of it now, I might as well have joined X-Change.”

Just as she remarked this, she seemed to think of something and tossed her hair, “If we are participating in X-Change, I could just be arranged to swap places with Xingxing.”

She was standing on the leftmost side, and these words were not heard by Qi Xingchen who was standing on the right. Instead, they all fell into the ears of Bo Ye who was standing next to her.

Bo Ye’s hand that was pushing the luggage cart paused, then took off the sunglasses.